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Old 09-05-2011, 03:24 AM   #40
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Originally Posted by Ashjuk View Post
And I'm also puzzled about the 'loading new content degrading the battery'. Loading new content is the same to your battery as just turning it on to read. It's just a dumb battery it cannot tell if it is loading new content to the memory or just being asked to refresh the screen, either way it is just a drain on the battery of varying levels.
Loading new content can involve hooking it up to the computer, which starts charging the battery. If the connection is only for a couple of minutes--just long enough to get the new content on the device--for some kinds of batteries, that's a problem. Some batteries don't do well with multiple very short charges.

I've heard the ereader batteries are of a different type and this isn't a problem with them, but that may only be true for some of them.
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